Wackenhut Services Inc., one of the nation's busiest private security providers, is fighting City Hall in Los Angeles and on Capitol Hill to hang onto contracts worth billions of dollars.

Wackenhut, a firm founded in Miami in the '50s by ex-G-man George Wackenhut, in 1989 won a $2.3 million contract to guard Metrorail stations and grew the practice into a nearly $20 million-per ...

George R. Wackenhut, the founder of a global security company that has guarded U.S. embassies, nuclear power plants and the trans-Alaska oil pipeline as well as neighborhood malls and countless ...

Add Nevada and Tennessee to the states where Wackenhut Corp. is encountering problems. Concerns about Wackenhut prisons, security facilities and guards have previously resulted in lawsuits, jailed ...

MIAMI (CBS4) ― Wackenhut vice-president Eduardo Esquivel was one of three individuals now facing arrest for "ghost posts." CBS Close numSlides of totalImages Slideshows Hostage Held In Gables ...

Wackenhut issued a statement Friday saying the Exelon decision was not a surprise and would provide an opportunity for Wackenhutto improve its operations. [email protected] Tags; ...

Wackenhut's contract to provide security at DHS headquarters was canceled last year following a mishandled anthrax threat and allegations of poor training, underguarded building entrances and ...

Wackenhut says Levine was not involved in day to day operations. But Bair says he informed Levine face-to-face. "I briefed him personally, in 1999," Bair said.

Wackenhut Corp. filed a racketeering lawsuit against the Service Employees International Union over its attempts to organize the security company's 32,000 workers nationwide. The lawsuit, filed in ...

Last year, the state prison system in Texas held nearly 39,000 inmates. About 7,000 overflowed into county jails. It was a situation that called for fast action.“We needed the space,” said Bob ...

Wackenhut guards have two stripes down the side of their pants. After about 30 minutes, the mother began to wonder why Coral Gables hadn't responded.

Snapped this Thursday night on a westbound Blue Line near Beaverton Creek. Maybe it's just me, but this didn't exactly scream "Everyone on this train is now safe!" to me. The security patrols ...